@LN78@zupertramp I can't speak to the McAvoy version, but the original Danish/Dutch movie was very good. Read that the American version was inferior so I never bothered with it, but I think I may reconsider and check it out, as many are singing its praises. What made the Danish/Dutch version so effective was the language barrier between the couples and how it played into the paranoia and confusion of the visiting couple. Not sure how the American version can attain a similar effect.
@FuriousMachine The paranoia is there but it's more to do with the city/countryside dichotomy - a bit similar to the vibe in "Deliverance" or "Straw Dogs".
"One of the unloveliest and least enlightening aspects of contemporary discourse is the tendency to presume that whatever one disagrees with must be very simple—not only simple, but also simply wrong." - Elizabeth Bruenig
@zupertramp I haven't seen the original version but Mark Kermode said that there are enough significant differences to see one without ruining the other - it isn't a scene for scene English language remake like "Funny Games" for example
"Dinner In America" - angry-at-the-world punk rocker falls in love with a terminally shy, socially awkward (possibly on the spectrum) girl in a Todd Solondze/John Waters-esque take on the meet-cute movie. Unbelievably aggressive and profane but also one of the sweetest films I've seen in ages. Fantastic.
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